Re: Verification Required - Virus/Real?

From: "Bobbyaro" <Bobbyaro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

| Hi all,

| I have XP sp2 running and I logged on last night fine. I Rebooted and when
| the login screen came up the mouse froze and nothing would happen, so i did a
| hard reset. This time an error message came up with various addresses, sorry
| no details available, I clicked ok and a further error box appeared saying,
| "this version of windows needs to be verified to continue" I click ok and get
| a windows effect box asking for me to choose my method of verification
| (Web/Phone/do not continue), I click web and a screen some up asking for my
| product key.

| At this point the mouse freezes again, so I reset, again the mouse freezes
| on loading the login screen. It is at this point I get suspicious, because on
| the next login, it goes straight through and lets me log in fine.

| Now however, it is asking for verification again. If I don't provide the key
| it logs me back out, but the fact that I bypassed this by resetting makes me
| wonder if it is actually an MS verification or is some malware trying to
| hijack my product key, or something?

| The product is a legal purchased version that has been running for about a
| year and has been verified in the past. Is this just something that happens
| every so often with XP?

| Any help much appreciated,

| Thanks.

OS corruption and not malware.

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Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm


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